American - Scientist | March 31, 1945 -
Throughout Pixar's history, we've had major meltdowns and crises. It's happened throughout our history: you reach a certain point, it doesn't work, and you start all over again.
Edwin Catmull
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When you take a director off a project, that makes a person feel humiliated because everyone knows it. But we're responsible because we put them in that position.
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What I've learned running Pixar applies to all businesses.
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For me, the work we did to turn around 'Toy Story 2' was the defining moment in Pixar's history.
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We've always had ups and downs at Pixar, starting with the high we felt doing something we'd never done - 'Toy Story' - and the low we felt right after when we realized we'd messed a bunch of things up along the way.
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People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don't actually know what risk means: that risk actually does bring failure and mistakes.
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Part of being the successful Pixar is that we will take risks on teams and ideas, and some of them won't work out. We only lose from this if we don't respond to the failures. If we respond, and we think it through and figure out how to move ahead, then we're learning from it. That's what Pixar is.
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Every new idea in any field needs protection.
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